As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas  —  Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters' ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.  —  Crucial positions at the local offices of the National Weather Service …

‘I want my vote back’: Trump-voting family stunned after Canadian mother detained over immigration status  —  Family of Cynthia Olivera reconsiders support for president after Ice detained her at green card interview  —  The family of a Canadian national who supported Donald Trump's plans …

Tariffs return to April rates on August 1 without deals, Bessent says  —  Countries that don't make trade deals with the U.S. by August 1 can expect tariff rates to return to the levels announced in April, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Sunday.

6 of the biggest challenges facing Musk's new political party  —  The richest man in the world says he has started “the America Party.”  Turning it into a meaningful movement will be difficult.  —  The richest man in the world said Saturday he has started a new U.S. political party …

Can Democrats Find Their Way on Immigration?  —  The party's leftward shift in the Biden administration arguably laid the groundwork for President Trump's aggressive approach.  Deciding the next move won't be easy.  —  Many Democratic presidential candidates in 2019 supported decriminalizing …

‘Tears My Heart to Pieces’: North Carolina Braces for Medicaid Cuts  —  President Trump's domestic policy law jeopardizes plans to reopen one rural county's hospital — and health coverage for hundreds of thousands of state residents.  —  The only hospital in Martin County, N.C., closed in 2023, but the electricity is still on inside.

Things Worth Remembering: Lady Liberty's Open Arms  —  It was a poet who transformed America's favorite statue from a celebration of independence to a symbol of welcome.  —  Upgrade to Listen … My grandfather, Lorenzo Nocera, immigrated to America in 1904 from a small town south of Naples, Italy.

Inside Trump's supercharged version of Bush's “War on Terror”  —  Mass surveillance. … Citing national security to hide information from the courts.  Labeling people as “terrorists” as a political and legal strategy. … But now Trump is supercharging many of the post-9/11 legal, tactical and political strategies Bush used.

‘The American system is being destroyed’: academics on leaving US for ‘scientific asylum’ in France  —  Almost 300 researchers have applied for positions at Aix-Marseille University after Trump unleashed his attack on academia  —  It was on a US-bound flight in March, as Brian Sandberg stressed …

How Trump's policies are reshaping immigration enforcement in Puerto Rico  —  Residents have decried the “aggressiveness” of immigration raids in a U.S. territory without permanent detention centers, as immigrants are flown across the ocean to the mainland.  —  In Barrio Obrero …

Trump's economy remains pretty strong, but some warning signs are flashing  —  Stock markets are up and tax cuts are coming for some, but consumer spending is slowing and the full effects of tariffs have not yet hit.  —  Summary  —  Nearly six months into his second term …

July 5, 2025  —  Yesterday afternoon, President Donald J. Trump signed the nearly 1,000-page budget reconciliation bill Republicans passed last week.  Trump had demanded Congress pass the measure by July 4, and Republicans rammed it through despite the bill's deep unpopularity and Congress's lack of debate on it.

The Advertisers Spending Big in West Palm Beach Just to Reach Trump  —  More than a dozen groups have focused on the tiny Florida market, often with ads praising the president  —  Watching television in West Palm Beach, Fla., this year meant being a bystander to an array of groups seeking an audience with a single viewer.

US completes deportation of 8 men to South Sudan after weeks of legal wrangling  —  Eight men deported from the United States in May and held under guard for weeks at an American military base in the African nation of Djibouti while their legal challenges played out in court have now reached …